Blogtoberfest Guest Post: Vampires, Goblins, and the Ghost of Neil Diamond

This post was written by Joe, who also writes and celebrates his love of lists at Pioneer Valley Days and My Life on Shuffle. The photo is A Very Merry Jesus Halloween by Miss Becky Fay. I like Halloween, even though these days, I don’t usually have the energy to hang tons of decorations or … Continue reading Blogtoberfest Guest Post: Vampires, Goblins, and the Ghost of Neil Diamond

Pumpkin Watch 2010

It's amazing that I haven't caused a 13-car pile-up yet this month, as I repeatedly slam on the brakes to snap shots of the symbol o' the season -- The Great Pumpkin. ...white -- or, as I like to say, Albino -- and orange mini-gourds at Whitney's Farm Winken, Blinken, & Nod ...and if you're … Continue reading Pumpkin Watch 2010

Blogtoberfest Guest Post: Where All My Zombies At?

This post was written by Gene Hyatt, who publishes My Life in Pictures and this Haiku blog. He talks about life, photography, and, yes, Zombies. October has to be one of the greatest months in the Gregorian calendar. There is something for everyone, Oktoberfest, the fall foliage, post season MLB, haunted hay rides with warm … Continue reading Blogtoberfest Guest Post: Where All My Zombies At?

A Noiseless Patient Spider – Walt Whitman

Oh, the Tangled Web... Kennedy Park, Lenox, Mass. Labor Day 2010 (c)jcs Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. 208. A Noiseless Patient Spider A NOISELESS, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself; … Continue reading A Noiseless Patient Spider – Walt Whitman